The Next Big Thing:

Give your customers the convenience and control of creating their own large format images with the Horizon Poster Station. Customers simply bring in their photos or digital camera media to create unique, customized posters in a variety of sizes and styles. They can make corrections, scan existing images, add borders, and create posters, banners, entertainment photos, enlargements and more. Best of all, the Poster Station is a self-service solution that keeps you and your staff free to focus on other parts of your business, while your Poster Station sales add up.

PosterPrint Software

With market researchers predicting that the digital imaging photo kiosk will be one of the major growth areas of the business during the next five years, Horizon offers its customers PosterPrint - a robust consumer imaging software engine that drives the latest generation of digital photo kiosks.

Our customizable software is the heart of our customer-focused approach. With our ability to easily adapt branding, splash screens, colors, languages, and product output offerings, PosterPrint can be tailored to fit any market niches.

It's fast and it's easy. PosterPrint is a touch screen, PC-based digital kiosk application that enables end-customers to create an array of quality poster and large format products simply by following the steps on the screen.

Images are quickly loaded from any one of a variety of input devices. Whether it's a CD-ROM, an image for scanning, an xD card or a compact flash card, a touch of the screen means the user is ready to edit and enhance images, create picture collages, print enlargements, burn DVD viewable disks, or simply produce a 2’ x 3’ print. Additional products are only limited by the retailer’s choice of output device.

Design Goals

PosterPrint is designed to deliver. Its development design goals are simple, but powerful:

Speed
Speed and efficiency of the consumer's overall transaction, and speed of image processing - PosterPrint gets more from your hardware and is the fastest software on the market for processing images.

Reliability
Overall product uptime is maximized with unique windows messaging management, diagnostics, and both local and remote management capability. PosterPrint is designed to manage heavy workloads in demanding environments ensuring the software is running when you need it the most.

Quality
Image reproduction in an accurate manner is key to overall customer satisfaction. Rely on PosterPrint to produce outputs with clear, bright images that manage aspect ratios to ensure unexpected crops and other print errors won't result in product returns or print wastage.

Flexibility
The easy customer branding, various software workflows and backgrounds, limitless product offerings, local and remote price and product offering management, and an easy splash screen ensure that PosterPrint is capable of supporting the most demanding marketing needs.

Consumer Advantages

Our customers are impressed with PosterPrint because we make it our business to impress their customers. With Horizon's PosterPrint, kiosk users rely on our:

Fast and simple process
Straightforward steps with online help feature guarantee even the most non-technical consumer success every time.

Easy to use editing tools
Functions such as crop, zoom, rotate and one-touch auto image correction make basic editing foolproof.

Red-eye removal
Now you see them, now you don't-in one touch!

Resolution detection
No surprises. PosterPrint ensures the best looking product possible by warning users if their image is of inappropriate resolution.

Internet connectivity
Share images with friends and family. PosterPrint can store digital images online.

Printer pooling
Multiple printers can be pooled with print orders allocated by either full print order, or by individual image, to increase overall work throughput.

CD storage
Consumers can easily burn images to a CD then use the CD to watch an automatic slideshow without installing any software to their hard drive.

Variety of print products
Consumers can make prints, index pages, photo cards or custom packages, including large format (poster) sizes. They can print in full color, black and white or even sepia. Whether it's printing the digital image to mugs, T-shirts, mouse pads or paper Horizon can do it - it's simply up to the retailer to define it.

Retail Advantages

Besides appealing to end-customers, PosterPrint appeals to retailers because it offers:

Advanced flexibility
Take advantage of the global market with our multi-language support or investigate our multiple GUI styles and dual workflow functions.

Superior architectural approach
Generating profits for the retailer is our ultimate design goal. We can integrate with online management tools as well as other online photo networking applications to lead to success.

Inherent management and reporting tools
PosterPrint offers GUI remote management support, it can report customer uses, it offers a password protected management function and provides the retailer with three levels of maintenance.

Faster speed
PosterPrint is multi-threaded software where efficient workflows are designed to minimize customer interaction and generate higher revenue orders.

Powerful Transaction Approval Option
PosterPrint provides secure loyalty, store value and credit card transactions and guaranteed password protection.

Private branding
Generate a unique look for the kiosk interface. PosterPrint can modify and dynamically generate all backgrounds, buttons and elements of the digital imaging workflow to reflect the retailers' image and branding requirements.

Flexible workflow options
Take advantage of PosterPrint's two standard workflow options; PosterExpress and PosterDeluxe. PosterExpress guides kiosk users to a fast, convenient transaction, emphasizing volume transaction for the retailer, while PosterDeluxe is an enhanced workflow focusing on specialty options that drive value-added transactions for the retailer.

Custom implementation services
Digital images aren't restricted to digital prints. Our PosterPrint software can be customized to work with many different products. Our customers define their product offering suites based on their profit margins, Horizon just makes it happen.

Open systems design
PosterPrint is a software application that supports and optimizes the performance of all supported input and output devices as well as LAN and Internet connections.


These advanced features of PosterPrint offer retailers:

Investment protection
PosterPrint's modular open systems design means it's possible to connect new high performance devices without risking the current software investment.

Increased store traffic
Attracting customers in to the retail store boasting the convenience of an in-store digital kiosk that is fun and easy to use boosts foot traffic.

Customer Retention
An intuitive, interactive easy to use kiosk that provides "one-stop shop" design for digital imaging needs and offers a slick and convenient alternative to the expensive, messy and time consuming home printing option.
   
 

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